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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Chile	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	15,140	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	15,340	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	15,513	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	15,686	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	15,859	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	16,029	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	16,222	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	16,364	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	16,536	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	16,700	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	16,864	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	16,999	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	17,189	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	17,378	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	17,545	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	17,720	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	17,904	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	18,099	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	18,350	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	18,681	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	19,035	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	19,385	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	19,604	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	19,715	108,171

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.